Foundations in the Study of Magic, Part 4: Early Modern
Cunning-Folk and Witch Hunts up to the Early Modern Period.
Foundations in the Study of Magic, Part 4: Early Modern udemy course
Cunning-Folk and Witch Hunts up to the Early Modern Period.
In Part 4 of the Foundations in the Study of Magic, Section 1 will cover the decline of the fall of the Roman Empire and the impact it had on Western civilization. In Section 2 you will discover the magical professionals called the by modern scholars as the Cunning-folk as well as the services they offered to their clients for centuries. In later sections you will also learn about the origins of the witch hunts that spread throughout Europe and eventually to North America over a 300 year period. And in the final section this lecture will touch upon the fusions that occurred between Christianity and its pagan roots with a focus on England and Ireland.
